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Book Cover for: Only the Lover Sings: Art and Contemplation, Josef Pieper

Only the Lover Sings: Art and Contemplation

Josef Pieper

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The popular and highly regarded Pieper speaks of the necessity for human persons to be able to contemplate and appreciate beauty to develop their full humanity. Pieper expresses succinctly that the foundation of the human person in society is leisure, free time in which one can contemplate, be receptive to being and its beauty.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Ignatius Press
  • Publish Date: Oct 1st, 1990
  • Pages: 76
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 7.18in - 4.78in - 0.27in - 0.21lb
  • EAN: 9780898703023
  • Categories: • Devotional

About the Author

Pieper, Josef: -

Josef Pieper, perhaps the most popular Thomist philosopher of the twentieth century, was schooled in the Greek classics and the writings of St. Thomas Aquinas. He also studied philosophy, law, and sociology, and he was a professor at the University of Munster, West Germany. His numerous books have been widely praised by both the secular and religious press.

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Praise for this book

"Joy is more profound than sadness, and our capacity to delight in what is mostly determines what we are. Josef Pieper's welcome guidance on leisure, festivity, and contemplation is the most secure and most exciting way to arrive at, and to delight in, the truth in things. Pieper teaches us through music, sculpture, and poetry to see the luminous beauty that reflects an origin deeper than themselves."
--James V. Schall, S.J., Georgetown University